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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-13
How to Raise Onions.

Prairie Farmer.
Any ordinary soil, when properly enriched,
will grow onions. An alluvial bottom land
properly drained free from standing moist
ure, will answer best. One hundred barrels Of
onions to the acre is fair crop; though it will
of course, depend upon the cultivation Rich
land well looked after will produce twice as
much as half the farm gardens by the methods
usually employed in them The manure may
be hauled on during the winter and poughed in
in the spring The earlier the seed can be got
into the ground in the spring the better, for II
the plants do not get good start before the
hot, dry weather comes on. they do not do so
we'll The ground must be brought into fine
filth. and then rolled fat; the latter is of much
importance in securing a good set of plants.
The seed should for field culture. be drilled IN
rows. one foot apart in the rows, for convenience
of cultivation The crop is often placed IN beds
of five rows each. Is inches being left for an
alley.
The covering of the seed is best accomplished
with light roller. drawing it lengthwlse Of the
lines. The rolling is also beneficial to the crop.
Four pounds of seed is required for an acre,
and it must be sown by machine and known 60
be good.
Onion sets are sometimes used instead of seed
to grow the crop of ripe. keeping onions In
this case, seed is first sown as before but the
rows need not be more than six or nine inches
apart and the seed should be put IN twice as
thick as for a crop of market onions. Besides
keeping them clean of weeds, the principal aim
is to induce the formation of perfect miniature
onion. IF not obtained then early in August
the crop is all pulled up and laid In rows On the
ground roots, tops and all. In the ripening
which follows. small, perfect onion is formed,
which is the set. After these sets have been
dried and cleaned they can be readily kept until
spring. when. being planted out. they will fur
nish fine crop of either early green onions. or
ripe ones later on. Those who find any difficulty
in raising marketable onions from seed can al
ways succeeded by sets.
Sorts-For spring onions orpickles. the silver.
skinned is best; for heavy crops. yellow Danvers
is one of the most productive. The Strasburs
or yellow Dutch and the large red Wethersfeld
are also good
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Philadelphia Record.


The breeder is not behind the manufacturer
and inventor in the work accomplished. though
his work has been more difficult and has extend
ed over greater period of time. When the
field is observed it shows most wonderful prog
ress for the breeder during the past fifty years.
He has taken all the domestic animals from
their original condition and nodded or changed
them in form as though modelling from clay, and
the characteristics of each breed have been fixed
according to his preference. He has divided the
horses into breeds and classified them. produc-
ing from the same original stock the heavy
draught, the runner and the trotter, not except
ing the ponies. and is at work on fast gated
walking horses. each family being entirely differ
ent from the others. while crosses of the ass
and the horse of the present day produce mules
of larger size than either parent The cattle
have been classified in a manner to permit OF the
selection of particular breeds for any purpose to
which such stock may be adapted. The Short
horns, Herefords, and Polled Angus are bred
solely for beef. the Jerseys and Guernseys are
esnecially adapted for the production OF butter,
the Devons are best as work oxen, and the Hoi
stems and Avreshires excel producers of
milk. though the latter breeds are excellent
butter-producers also. The breeders operations
with swine have also been very successful. He
has bred them TO uniformity of color truly
markable. The Berkshire is hot only specially
provided with large. full, prominent hams. but
is also marked with black hair and four white
feet, as well as white spot on the forehead and
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How to Make a Farm Cistern.


The surface soil is removed to depth of
eighteen inches to exclude frost in winter and
heat in the summer. The excavation is made
in the shape of an egg with the upper third cut
off. 1t should be eight to ten feetdeep, and sew
en- to ten feet in diameter The deeper the clS-
tern the better and cheaper it is. If the soil is
smooth and compact, the cement may be laid
directly upon it, and no brick lining is required.
To do this large fiat stone is bedded in cement
at the bottom, for the workman to stand upon,
and for rest for the pump. The cement IS
made of water-lime one part and clean, sharp
sand. three parts, mixed dry. first, and wetted
up in small quantities required. and can be
used before it sets hard. The cement Is laid
about an inch thick. When the bottom is
cred. a layer is put in around the wall about a
foot high and as it sets very quickly, as soon as
above it. until the whole is completed In dig
ging, shoulder of a foot i'll width is made on
the top of the firm subson eighteen inches, to
rest the beams upon. This is also covered with
cement, and the beams are laid on and the space
between them on the shoulder are filed in with
stone or brick. and cement, to the upper level
upon which the floor rests. A strong floor Of
four-inch plank. doubled. with the joints broken,
is laid upon the beams and covered with a coat of
the cement. to exclude surface water; and this
floor is then covered with earth and sodded over,
or a platform is built over it to stand upon A
manhole should be made in the cover, large
enough for person to go down when it is nee
essary to clean out the cistern, and this is
brought up little above the platform. and fitted
with tight cover kept locked to avoid danger
of children falling in.
"A Iorce pump snouio always DC cnoseH ior lae
cistern, so that in case of need hose may be
attached. and the water carried where it may be
wanted-to distant trough. or to any part of
the yard or stables.
When the soil is sandy or loose gravel, the
cistern should be lined with hard bricks length
wise, so as to make a wall four inches thick.
The floor should be of cement, and no bricks
except few in the center viii be required
The bricks should be thoroughly wetted before
they are used. The cement should be spread all
over the surface of the bricks. so as to COM
pletely FL the spaces. and the outside of the
wall should be plastered as it goes up Earth
should be packed firmly against the wall
outside to give firm backing to resist the
pressure of water This is an important point.
and should not be forgotten. When the de-
sired height is reached the bricks inclined
gradually to form the shoulder for the arch,
and the wall is then drawn in to form the cover,
leaving man-hole in the center. This is
cred with a large fag-stone. The inside of the
cistern is covered with a wash coat of clear
cement.
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The Foreign Grain Trade.

LONDON, Dec. 12.-The Mark Lane Express
says: English wheat was decidedly weaker. and
the demand lessened, while the damp weather
tended TO deteriorate its condition. The sales
of English wheat during the week were &C. 838
quarters, at BIS I'd, against 6S,345 quarters,
at 33s Id for the corresponding period
last year. Foreign wheat was fur
Their depressed. The mild weather on the
Baltic and Black seas will enable q continuation
of extensive shipments, which, com bined with
increased arrivals of American -four, make
trade sick. Corn was quiet Nine wheat car
goes arrived two were sold. four were with
drawn, and three remained. To-day. values of
English and foreign wheat were unaltered, but
all kinds were slow to SELL and in buyers favor.
Flour was dull Corn was firm. Oats, beans
and peas sell slowly.
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black, and bred long in the body as q producer
of side-meat while the short-faced Yorkshire,
white in color. mature very early and excel IN
the production of fat and lard. Sheep are class.
flied into mutton and wool breeds. the former
being subdivided into families that produce
larger proportion of narbled flesh according to
maturity or size, while the wool breeds are nlads
to produce long middle or fine WOOL according
to preference. No work Of the breeder has been
considered impossible. His efforts have been
successful in every direction. Even the poultry
have been classified and the breeder has even
destroyed the propensity to incubate in some
breeds. The great value of the work done by
the breeders who have brought about these class
ifcations cannot be estimated, the. increase il
not confined to single year. Whether the limit
of Improvement has been reached not cannot
be stated. but in the face Of such wonderful ac-
complishment it is safe to claim thai nothing
seems impossible.
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the opening Change today. The market
$685. Saturdays close was at s15.2l4. Be
tween $50 and 1890 o'clock it dropped to $40 ~:
and advanced to $l5.279, and before MOOT soio
ND to S15. 50 under heavy buying orders. may
corn opened unchanged at 53sc and sold to isc
In the first fifteen minutes, but soon droppeo
back to the opening figures. There was an I'M
mense demand for it at $3.50, and it kept up
around SAC during the morning. May wheat
opened unchanged from Saturday at SAFE. 1t
sold down to SAGE, up to SAFE, and dropped BACK
to Sale by 1890 o'clock. When the visible sup
ply figures came out il weakened perceptibly. GO
ing down to 49, a Sac At 1890 it was steady at
S4ac. but after this came sharp selling, and May
wheat sold down to S3sc, and May corn to o3sc
The leading futures ranged follows:
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Elsewhere.

NEW YORK Dec. 12.-Beeves-Receipts. 300,
tor a 9 or et1
slaughterers direct, and carloads FOR expectations
market dull at advance of 10000; very common
to very choice native steers sold at from 1878 to
1886. and 81 40 was rufused tor the best carload
in markets no Texas or Colorado eassie oHered OK 1
Sheep and Lambs Receipts 6, $40 making %. 900
for the week. firm and higher but not active common
to best sheep sold at So 5O05.5O; common to choice
Hocs~Reeeipts $500 making A. $50 for the
$50 none 0''sf'o AhS'' h'"'nA''y s'sA's - 'i
eight hours. s95. Good to choice steers advanced
501Oe poor to medium natives in fair demand but at
esose spss 81 g
s. Christmas So p; stockers and feeders. $1,000
Sheep-Receipts last forty-eieht hours, 16, 200.
Market active best grades adysnesd lo9 loe others
obses t. good to
Western lambs, So 25 1878; extra S60625 80
Prices advanced 91oc; light pigs s475o5: mixed
pigs and light Workers.. So 25D5.3O selected York
ers,- s5.s50o.4o; selected medium weights. s5.450
CHICAGO. Dec. 1.-THE Drovers' Journal re-
ports: Cattle-Recepts. 10000; shipments. 4.Ooo.
steers GERS s27oo4eo ssockers and feeders. 81 80
3. Is; cows, bulls and mixed, S1.2o02.SO; Texas
Hors@Receipts. IS. 900: shipments 1000. Mar
ket lOc lower for heavy; others steady: mixed
$4.eo95 25; heavy, S505.45; light, $4.5o05.1o
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 1000 shipments.
1000 Market strong: Christmas mutton, $40
Texans. So. 5o0s.75; lambs. s4S5.s5.
KANSAS CITY Dec. 1.-THE Live Stock Indi-
Gator reports: Cattle-Receipts, 200; shipments,
100. Market strong for good and fat. others slow
and steady. Good to choice corn-fed. 81 30 "a so;
common to medium. So 25 04.2O stockers 2.OO0
$50: feeders. $2.65 1925; cows. S1.2o02.7o;
Hogs-Receipts, 1000; Shipments, 775. Market
strong and 5000 higher. Good to choice. So. goa
$50; common to medium, $4,000 10; skips and
pigs. $500 40.
Sheep-Receipts, $50; shipments none Market
strong Good to choice, $3OO04.OO; common to
medium, $1.5O02.90.
ST. LOUIS. Dec 12.-Cattle-Receipts. 5, 800;
shipments. 700 Market stronger. Choice heavy
native steers, 81. 3505.OO; fair to good native
steers So. so 40 butchers steers fair to choice,
S31O04OO stockers and feeders fair to good ST.. so
Hogs-Receipts 200; shipments, 1. 100. Market
active and 5 to 1Oc higher. Choice heavy and butch
ers selections. S54005.55: Workers. and packers
medium to prime, $4.8 05.35; light grades, common
to good Sf.35 04.S5.
Sheep-Receipts. 400; shipments 900. Market
firm. Fair to fancy. So. 2O04.10.
EAST LIBERTY. Pa. Dec. 12.-Cattle-Receipts.
/ 976: shipments / COS. Market active and a shade
stronger than last weeks prices. Fifteen of
tie shipped to New York to-day.
ket fair; Philadephias, 81 40 o5. So Workers. S.
$3.50; common to fair, $5.1005.I5. Sixteen cars
of hogs shipped to New York to-day.
Sheep-Receipts. 5000: shpments. 5000. Mar.
ket active and 1O015c higher than last weeks prices
CINCINNATI Dec. IL Hogs firm and stronger:
ers So. 20 5.55. Receipts, $500; shipments, 900.
only a moderate demand Receipts 6.703 head.
Quotations, S6.I5 47.25.
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Farm NoreS.

Professor Stockbridge once tried to raise 200
bushels of corn to the acre. He said afterward:
II have learned that can apply manure enough
to grow 200 bushels of single acre and
put the hills thick enough. but have also
learned that not even the Creator himself can
give sunshine and leaf room enough for such q
crop with any variety of corn known to me
Western dairyman has hit upon a very sim
pie plan of warming water for his stock to drink
in winter, says the Michigan Farmer He put
an iron plate say eighteen inches square. on
the bottom of his water tank, cutting away the
wood. of course. where the iron was Under
cents worth of oil day would warm the water
for sixty cows up to 10o Or more.
The extreme heat and drought of the past
summer caused much trouble with wagon tires.
and often they would get clear off the wheel be-
fore the driver suspected that they were loose.
A convenient way to replace tire when pound
ing with an axe OF stone fails, Is to geta horse.
shoe with long heel calks to catch the edge of
the tire; after putting the tire far as posi-
BILE with the hands, then put a strong stick or
iron rod through the horse shoe and under the
felloe or the wheel By prylng DOWNWARD the
tire is drawn on
The Cultivator thinks that when the philosophy
of cooked food for stock shall be better under
than ever. but it will be used for slightly
warming food and drink than for cooking the
same. In large part of our year drink is SO
low in temperature that stock especially ami
mails giving milk. cannot take what they should
without injury. Chilling the system with too
cold food or water is not healthful any more
and unprotected in the storms of midwinter
had a mule with three large warts on her,
writes Georgia farmer in the Southern Guilt
vator. and ] cured them with this remedy:
Put one pound of alum in quart of water and
let it dissolve; then wash the wart three times
day for ten days. Presently the warts will
disappear. leaving scar. and you could not
tell that there ever had been any there. As
have seen so many inquiries for remedy tc
cure warts in your monthly, thought would
remind you that you once published this remedy,
and I know it will do the work well, for tried
it myself
Hon. n. G. Collins. of San Diego viii feed
1000 head of steers cactus and cotton seed
meal. Dir. Collins declares feeding cactus not G
new departure. but simply new application OF
a system centuries old The Mexicans always
feed their work cattle on cactus alone. doing
constant and heavy work, and keeping them in
good order. He believes that cactus alone VIII
make stock fat enough for the stall, but it
would take longer time than mixed with cotton
seed or corn-meal. His sheep have been win
tered this feed for years. the Mexican
herders cutting off the points of the leaves of
the standing plant with a short sword. and the
sheep. once getting their sharp nose into the
soft pulp Of the plant. make short work of it.
and live on it fat for months without drop of
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Cash quotations were as follows: Flour quiet
and steady: prices quotably UNCHANGED; No.
66c; No. corn. 1890; No oats 303c: No. 2
rye. Gle: No. 2 barley. 72076c; No. aaxseed.
81. 244 a l. 5c; Prime timothy seed. 81 30 23l
pound 73O0135c Short-rib sides. Qoose),
I. soc; dry-salted shoulders (boxed). 500 zoe;
short-clear sides (boxed). GSo01.9 Oc: whisky.
distlllers' finished goods per gal, ST. 10; sugars.
cut loaf, "a oslo; GRADUATED. z 1-5c; standard
A, &c.
On the Produce Exchange to-day the butter
market was easy and firm; fancy creamery, 20 a
Soc: dairy, % a 26c; eggs. 81 023c.
Receipts-Flour. "a, 900 brls; wheat. 10000
bu; corn POS 900 bu; oats. III, 900 bu; rye 1000
bu; barley, 80 900 bu. Shipments-Flour, 3d.,
900 brls; wheat %. 600 bu; corn Sc, 900 bu oats,
81, 600 Blu; rye, 5000 bu; barley. $4,000 bu.
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Oil.

OIL CITY. Pa. Dec. 12-Nation al Transit GER
tifcates opened at lac: highest 77ssc; lowest
76s4c; closed at 77lec; sales, $1,000 brls: clear
anees 100000 brfss charters, 2.976 brls; ship
rnents, 11a 600 bris; runs Al. ia brls.
NEW YORK. Dec. 12.-Petroieum closed firm:
opening 70 Zee; highest, "a asc; lowest, Sac closed
771sc; sales ], 254 600 brls. Turpentne steady at
3Tl4c.
PITTSBURG. Pa. Dec 12.-Petroleum dull but
frnp National Transit certificates oDened at 763c;
closed at n 1sc; highest. n Sc: lowest 364c.
CLEVELAND, Dec. 12.-Petroleum firm; stand
ard white. 1lOo 7l4c.
WILMINGTON, Dec. 12.-Turpentine firm at
34loc.
CHARLESTON, Dec. 12.-Turpentine firm at
34l4css =
SAVANNAH, Ga, Dec 12.-Turpentine. 341ac.
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NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

Yesterdays Quotations on Produce at the
Two Great Commercial Centers
NEW YORK. Dec 12-Flour-Receipts
4s, $50 packages; exports, 1880 brls. 2341 sacks.
Sales. a. 900 brls; common to good extra Ohio,
g. 10 as 20; common to choice extra ST. Louis,
e3I005 20.
wheat-Receipts. 81. $50 bu; exports, none;
sales. 10 240, 900 on futures and $4,000 bu spot.
Weaker on realizing Spot lots declined 1Ic
and options II a &c; closing heavy at near bot
tom: speculation quite brisk; spot trading
dull. No. spring. nominal. S9sc; uneraded
spring, 90 15-l6c: No hard. 93sc for milling;
ungraded red. 794 a 94c; No. red. S91 q 90c
store and elevator, 90s q Gle delivered; No. RED.
nominal, 94c; No white. nominal, 92c; No.
red. December, So a. 0sc. closing at soc: Janu-
9lfc. closing at 90sc: March. Oh a 93sc. clos
ing at 92c; April, 92s 093tc. closing at 93c;
May, 934 D95Rc, closing at 93sc; December
(1s8s). 963 a 72c. closing at 96sc.
Corn-Rrceipts. 40.54 bu exports. 25,8l4
bu; sales. 2,096 900 bu futures and 1000 bu
BLOT Spot 1014c and options l.01Ic lower.
closing heavy; speculation moderately active.
Dngraded. 81 4624c: No 3. Gle; No gu 0624c
delivered steamer yellow, &c: Nc. 2, Deem
Der nominal, Gle: January, OH 0624c; May, 62 o
oatswReceipts. 1000 bu; EXPORTS none;
sales. 10000 bu futures and 100000 bu spot;
f6sc lower and dull Mixed Western, 30
B9c: white do, 80 q 44c-
Hay quiet and generally steady.
Hops in light demand
= CoHee-Spot fair fio nrm at Iotc; options
higher but only moderately active; sales, IS. $50
bags; December, 10 80 a 15 95c January. Is 55 q
1565c: February. Is 40 a Is soc; March, Is 400
Is 50c April Is 50 10 45c MAY, 10. 20 a 10. Boo;
June. Il. 10 4 Is. 25c: July. 15Ol5 Zoe; August
l46O014 Toe; September. IA 80 a IA 45c; October.
H. 10c: November, 14d14. Csc; December (16S8l,
IL ola zoe. Sugar dull and nominal; molasses
grades Age: fair refining quoted at SIC: refined
6rm and quiet; standard a. 64c; confectionery
4. 81 5000. Molasses steady. Rice steady.
Tallow steady Rosin dull.
Eggs firm and in fair request; receipts, 3.S47
packages Western, % 025c
Pork quiet and steady. Cut meats easier:
peklSd bellies ~ 07sc Lard 709 points higher
md moderately active; Western steam, spot.
r70c; January. 7581768c; February, 1910
E75c: Nav, 100 1910: June. 7.95 8 02c city
iteam. 45c
Butter quiet. frmlv held; Western, Is 033c:
Western creamery. 1880. Cheese unchanged
Ind quiet
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Lieht arrivals OF hogs
snd their poor quality made pork very strong at
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GRAIN AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Statement Showing the Visible Supply of
Grain in the United States and Canada.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.-THE visible grain supply
statement, as compiled by the secretary Of the
Board of Trade shows an increase for the past
week Of 1.743,2os bu wheat, and II. 692 bu rye,
and decrease of 263, 127 bu corn, 162, 527 blu
oats and 527l blu barley. Total stock of wheat
in sight: ~ 004 1872 bu against SO, 989. geo blu
the corresponding date last year The local
stocks of wheat 4, 638, S02 bu.
The visible supply of grain, Saturday. Dec. 10,
as compiled by the New York Produce Elk
change, follows:
Wheat. 41.9s0. 155 bu. increase of !. 100. 123;
corn. 95S, 800 blu, decrease of 277, SOC; oats.
1929 456 bu, decrease of l51.2S2; rye, 1872 902
bu an increase of 1854: barley, 3.59s, 903 bu,
an increase of 5,13S.
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INDIANAPOLIS MARKETS,
Trade Opened Tame. with Few Fluctuations
in Values.

Trade Opened Tame, with Few FIuctu atoms
in Values.
INDIANAPOLIS Dec. IL.
AS is usually the case as the year draws near
it's close, trade takes on q tame tone, and the
only active departments are those which handle
holiday goods. Merchants feel we'll satisfied
with the results of the years business. Proba-
bly, there is not branch Of trade which has not
in its volume of business in 1887 exceeded that
of the year 1885, and, in fact, that of any pre-
ceding year. This remark will certainly apply
to the wholesale trade South Meridian street.
The dry goods men show handsome increases in
sales over any preceding year. and, while mar
gins have been small, they have made some
money. as they report few bad debts and that
bills have been paid with more than ordinary
promptness. Prices have ruled firm, and there
has been no loss incurred through breaks in any
line of goods and to-day prices in all lines rule
firm and steady. Grocers have done good bus
mess. The tone of staple articles through
the entire year has been upward in
tendency eoffees ranging at nearly double
the price of year ago, and
sugarslbeine about Is per cent. higher. Reports
from tie East to-day show a firm market on
both staples named. Canned goods are Sc ling
readily at the higher prices as compared with
the corresponding period last year. With the ex-
ception of coffees all articles in the grocery line
have ruled steady in price for months past. The
provision market has had its UPS and downs but
now the packers have matters to great extent
in their own hands and higher prices indi-
Gated than prevailed the last year In timers
supplies the market is in strong position Solder
and all the better grades of tin steadily ad-
vancing, there seeming to be- corner on the
market. The leather market is firm at I'M
changed prices. Merchants complain of dull
trade. The hide market is active but prices are
weak at the recent declines. The produce
markets are fairly active. Irish potatoes are in
good request and advancing in prices Apples
still in good supply and steady at the prices pre-
vaiine for some time past. Poultry arriving
freely prices weak Eggs firm, butter steady,
but hardly as firm in price as last week.
GRAIN.
While there was no serious break in prices on
unfavorable reports from other markets. there
was tameness noticeable IN the bidding
Change, unless for immediate delivery. AS re-